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A market in search of perfect earnings

by Interactive Brokers Traders Insight|Published August 4, 2020

Steve Sosnick, Interactive Brokers’ chief strategist, discusses the market dynamics amid a closely watched earnings season.

Investors found some solace in the solid earnings performance of the flagship tech giants such as Amazon (AMZN), Facebook (FB) and Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL). 

Photo Credit: Markus Trienke via Flickr Creative Commons

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Interactive Brokers Traders’ Insight (IBTI) is a venue for market-related articles and commentary covering an array of asset classes and topics. All articles published on Traders’ Insight are simultaneously published directly to our trading platform (TWS).
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